Synodic month length 29.46 days

Length of current 716 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 8 minutes longer than next lunation 717 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 6 December 2057 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠339°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠339°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠355.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before apogee

8 days after point of perigee on 27 November 2057 at 20:20 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 December 2057 at 06:08 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 388 503 km

Moon before ascending node

8 days after its descending node on 27 November 2057 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2057 at 10:23 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

7 days after previous South standstill on 29 November 2057 at 01:11 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.511°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.523° in the next northern standstill on 12 December 2057 at 21:42 in ♋ Cancer.